**Date:** Sunday may 21 1967
**Source:** Unknown
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By PATRICK KEATING
Register Staff Reporter
NAUGATUCK —A weekend recess in contract talks between the international policy committee of the United Rubber Workers, AFL-CIO, and of Uniroyal management carried the strike here into its 31st day today.
Negotiators agreed to the recess Friday and will resume talks Monday at 10 a.m. at Cincinnati.
The recess is a disappointment to the 5,000 idled employes of the Footwear, Chemical and Synthetic Divisions of Uniroyal here, for hopes of a settlement had been feeding on reports, some reliable and others unsubstantiated, that a breakthrough was imminent.
Officials of Locals, 45, 218 and 308 who are in daily contact with Cincinnati, however, are holding out some encouragement that the strike will be settled shortly. They said their sources report closer contact at the conference table.
Reportedly, Uniroyal management is using the weekend to reassess the revised demands of the union.
One spokesman for the union here said that company officials could walk into the conference room Monday and agree to terms.
This, if it happened, could not come too soon for rubber workers and the town. The strike has had an effect on the financial status of the striking employes and the economic life of borough stores and businesses.
The strike has left the idled workers with four payless weeks and the prospects of a fifth if an agreement is not reached early next week.
Financial relief of $25 weekly is being extended to members by the URW and assistance is available from the general welfare fund.